Peter Forsberg

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How much do you think it will hurt the Flyers not having Forsberg the first half of the season? Do you think they will still be solid playoff contenders if they lose their best center? I think that they have some other good players but without Forsberg they will have a tougher time.

Sultan of Swat

When healthy Forsberg is the best in the league. Of course it will hurt them a lot, he made a career year out of Simon Gagne, but the thing about the Flyers is they can't perform in the playoffs, they just don't have the heart I guess.

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Yeah, we did have a bad year last year, but we actually did much better after the Olympic break than the first part of the season. I think that if Malkin comes over next year, we get a good 2nd round draft pick player, and we get some decent free agents, and put them together with Crosby, we might actually be able to make the playoffs next year. And also hopefully our veterans are able to step up such as LeClair and Gonchar. This is wishful thinking of course, I don't want to be the 2nd worst team in the NHL again next year.

For a Free Scotland

Pittsburgh is going to leapfrog a lot of teams either this year or the next, as they simply have too many great draft picks and the salary cap makes it hard for teams ahead of them to improve dramatically.

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I really hope we improve, these last 2 seasons have been terrible. I'm just glad that we were able to add some toughness to our roster this year with Eric Cairns and Andre Roy, hopefully we'll get some skilled players that can lead us to a good season next year, and our regular players are able to improve.

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Yeah, if you get good defense then Fleury will be amazing, he's already a very good goaltender but he can't stop 50 shots every game, he basically averages 46 saves a game. Also Crosby is pretty much developed already, and now if Malkin supposely the Russian Mario Lemieux comes next year then they'll have a great team.